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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Mr.H.G. West, Sanitary Inspector, was appointed temporarily as factory
and workshop inspector in 1914. On 24th June, 1915, this appointment was
made permanent. During 1915 Inspector West continued his first routine
inspections of all factories, workshops and workplaces in the borough, in the
course of which he is preparing new card-index registers of these places.
| Workshops on the Register (Sec. 131) at the end of the year. | Numbers. |
|---|---|
| (1) | (2) |
| Bakehouses | 159 |
| Restaurant kitchens | 222 |
| Laundries | 113 |
| Domestic workshops | — |
| Other workshops where women are employed | 526 |
| Other workshops | 1159 |
| Total number of workshops on Register | 2179 |
| Class | Number | |
|---|---|---|
| (l) | (2) | |
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133) | ||
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 13 |
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 13 | |
| Other | -- | |
| Underground bakehouses (s. 101):— | ||
| Certificates granted during the year | - | |
| In use at the end of the year | 80 | |